Spanish Impact On The Indians

All my life, I have heard one story about California Indians being lazy, primitive, and immoral people. What kind of story is that we grow up with? The assigned readings of this week offer confusion of California history itself, as well as how Mission history been taught and debated in California’s education. The article’s within the essay The Spanish Impact on the Indians, 1769-1821 contradicts itself about the past of Indians and Padres. The article of Father Luis Jayme speaks to us as if the priest had lots of love for the Indians and were supposedly very concern about the abuses that Indians suffer against the soldiers. Although one article does make a clear statement that padres were hated among Indians and were exposed to native revenge. All of the articles of the essay offer different perspectives on whether the Spanish Imperial system had positive or negative effects on the Indians. This confuses me a lot because it contradicts everything we were once taught in public schools. I believe sources like the assigned readings offers great detail on how knowledge and cultural influence of native
As you grow older you start realizing that we have been taught California Mission history has being something great. Missions were built to keep unfriendly Indians and wild animals away but in my opinion it’s been the opposite. I am a catholic person but I do not practice Catholicism no more because its articles like these that made me take that place. I believe every mission and church does well but not every priest is good. Ask yourself why does California education keep you from learning that priest of missions of California brutally whipped, tortured, and burned Indians? The true answer for that can’t be found in textbooks but rather your own argument based on the sources. Personally Indians did have a culture but never got the chance to contribute it to